Born and living in Paris, Nicolas Monterrat is a creator of GIFs at the crossroads of humour, rhythm, aesthetics and poetry. Passionate about animation since always, this image format allows him to tinker at home with quirky little stories, to explore surreal and iconoclastic worlds. According to him, the interest of the GIF lies in the fact that it allows to approach the perfect loop, to tell a story in a few seconds. Everything is in the rhythm and quality of the sequences.
Nicolas will draw his imagination from scientific or popular images of another time. He likes their formal side, a bit rigid, applied, sometimes too serious. This makes him want to distract them from their original purpose, to bring them a little fantasy, humour or titillate the imagination. He is also inspired a lot by the work of Terry Gilliam in the Monty Python for example, that of Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit, Hombre_McSteez and his so creative animations, and in a completely different genre, the amazing work of Georges Rousse or Felice Varini and the brilliant Philippe Halsman. These artists propose staggered, parallel, funny and sometimes disturbing worlds, an atmosphere that is clearly found in Nicolas' work.
JUMPING HATS
The Show Must Go On
Enhancing Dutch portrait Computer
The Wave Machine
HOMME LIBRE... 2
Stay In Shape
GARDIEN DE LA GALAXIE
Travel in Style
Souvenir d'un temps révolu
Les enfants
Souvenir
Le masque
Pick Me !
City lights
L'échelle
Stay Put
The Tatoo
HOMME LIBRE...
In my living room
The Void
What the Heck?
Moon Area
Rivière à vendre
Night Flights I
What a view
Behind my hands
Encounter
Ask A Boss
Instant Hairdo
Let’s Try Something Different
Le métronome
Hide This, Please
Break in the wall
Le Mobile
The magic touch
Clean the world
Out of the Box
ON THE ROCK
Soul 21
L'homme électrique
Le plongeur
NASA AT HIS BEST
Par la fenêtre
Underground
Smiley Controlled Display
Night Flights II
HOUSTON ?..
Untitled V
Bus stop
First Class Office
Under Pressure
What lies beneath